Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Garden Quotations

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden

Nothing is worth more than this day.

Our earthly ball a peopled garden.

To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.

Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.

If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite.

No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.